Trento

Trento is a city on the Adige River in northern Italy, set in the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, where it is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento, known as Trentino. English speakers also call it Trent, and the Council of Trent met there in the sixteenth century. The city belonged to Austria and later Austria-Hungary until Italy annexed it in 1919. Its historic centre keeps medieval and Renaissance buildings, among them Trento Cathedral and the Castello del Buonconsiglio, and the University of Trento, founded in 1962, makes the city an educational and scientific centre for the region. Its population is recorded as 119,359 as of 2026, which makes it the third largest municipality in the Alps.